DISCLAIMER: I don't own Inuyasha!

A/N: I took an IQ test today and I found out my IQ is 126. It said that I'm an Inspired Inventor who's got exceptional verbal and mathematical skills, and am very good at brainstorming new ideas. Hmm…is that a good thing or a bad thing? Personally, I am bad at brainstorming though the math part is most definitely true (I've always done well in math. It's like the class that I've always been good in for reasons I know not) I also took a test on my personality. It said that I'm a Critic. Ahaha.

CHAPTER TWO

I love to jog. I would jog forever if I could. Sadly, I'm only able to go jogging about twice a week because my father believes that if I jog too much, it'll give people an opportunity to assassinate me. He is so paranoid.

Ahem. As I was saying, I love jogging. And today, I was able to go jogging! Jogging is also one of the only times I'm actually partially alone. Partially being the keyword. Trailing behind about half a block behind is a bodyguard always. The bodyguard for today's jogging session is Kouga.

I turn my head to look at Kouga behind. Hmm. As always, I'm hoping for an opportunity to escape. I'm always looking for an opportunity to escape. It's just something I do to try to defy my oh lovable father.

Hmm. I've heard that Kouga is really fast. From what I've heard, he can make a whirlwind of dust fly behind him because he's so quick. I grin evilly. He may be fast, but I was no star track athlete for nothing.

I round the corner at my usual jogging pace, but as soon as I know that I'm out of Kouga's view for a little bit, I take off as fast as my legs can carry me. At the end of the block, I take a left.

I heard Kouga shouting my name behind me, but I ignored it. Instead, I concentrated on getting as far away as possible. And deciding which way I should go.

Left corner, right corner, right, right, right, left, right, left, left, right, right, left, left, left, right, left, right. Yes, I think I have lost Kouga!

As I continued to run as quick as possible (never know, Kouga could still be on my tail!), I don't take notice to the many storm clouds approaching until I hear a loud BOOM of thunder, which I then pause and look up at the sky. Only to see rain come pouring cats and dogs. Just my luck.

I round the next corner, fishing my cell phone out from my handy, dandy POCKET! I open my cell so I can call home when I find out what's in front of me. That bastard's shop. I glare at it in a hating way. I turned around to go back around the corner.

"Ouch!" I shouted. I dropped my cell by accident because of the person that had also conveniently been rounding the corner. My closed eyes (I wonder when I closed them…) opened to reveal a man's chest. A man's bare chest that is absolutely drool worthy. I've never met an actor with a better looking, softer, firmer chest than this person's. I looked up at the person…

and find Sesshoumaru.

My jaws drop as a blush quickly covers my face. I quickly avert my eyes from his amused ones. And I notice my poor cell phone in a puddle, so I bend down to pick it up, doing anything so I don't have to look up at Sesshoumaru anymore.

"What are you doing out here in this kind of weather?" a husky voice says above me. My vocal chords literally freeze just then. I can't even manage a squeak.

And I hear him chuckle, which causes my vocal chords to unfreeze.

"I was just jogging! Am I not allowed to do that, huh?" I shout out, "What are you doing out here? In nothing b-but shorts?" I'm shrieking at him now.

I'm so mad, I'm shaking. Grr. Sesshoumaru sure pisses me off easily. Even more easily than Inuyasha, which is saying something. Actually, I'm shaking because it's so frickin COLD out here.

I remember just then that it's still pouring and I have no way of calling home because my cell phone will obviously not work right now because of its little trip into the unsanitary puddle of water. I brush past Sesshoumaru (not really caring anymore that he was laughing at me) so I can walk home, only to be stopped by a hand that gripped my right arm. I look back to give him my Glare of Death.

"You're not walking back in this kind of weather," he says to me quietly. Okay, is this for real, or did I just hear a nice thing out of Sesshoumaru's mouth?

"Huh?" is my ever brilliant reply.

He smiles at me, a cute, boyish smile (a/n: aww, KAWAII!).

"You can stay at my place till the storm passes. Wouldn't want your dear Inuyasha to have stop shooting his movie so he can nurse you, right?" he asks.

"I'll decline, thank you," I reply scathingly, "I wouldn't want to accidentally touch your paintings. I might ruin them, don't forget." I hear him sigh. Then a tug on my arm later, I find myself being dragged to Sesshoumaru's little shop.

"Stop it!" I yell loudly at him. He obviously ignores me, even when I start scratching him with my free arm. And let me tell you, my nails are sharp (actually, they're not. They're kind of…bitten. I have a childish tendency to bite my nails still, which really should discontinue. I swear, my manicurist is about to quit because she can't handle seeing my nails all bitten and such.).

So, a few minutes later I find myself on a couch in Sesshoumaru's house that's just above his shop. It's a nice, little place, I admit. Cozy.

Then a towel is thrown at me. I quickly pivot my head to where the towel was thrown from and obviously find Sesshoumaru.

"Didn't have to throw it," I hiss.

"You're welcome," he says instead, walking over to his small, little kitchen. He is insufferable! I would have just glared at him, but I was too cold. I dried myself best as I could with the towel before wrapping myself in it.

A few minutes later, Sesshoumaru enters the living room and gives me a cup of hot chocolate. I gladly take it, even though I'm supposed to be mad at him for dragging me here.

"Thank you," I manage say. Damn. I'm cold still; my teeth are even chattering. Sesshoumaru again disappears into, what I presume is his room, and returns with a thick blanket.

"Here," he says, handing the blanket to me.

"Thank you," I mumble, "How 'bout you? Aren't you cold? You've only dried yourself and changed. But you have got to be cold still."

He shrugged. "I'm used to it," he replies. A thoughtful look crosses his face, "Do you want something to change into? Must be freezing in those wet clothing."

I look at him suspiciously. "Why are you being so nice all of a sudden?" I ask him.

"Because I feel like it," he answers, "but don't get used to it. You just looked like you needed help because it was raining so hard. Can't let an annoying girl get sick and die now, can we (though a little rain can't really kill you)? Especially since she's a popular politician's daughter and an actress."

Now that sounds like the annoying bastard I know and hate. I grin at him at he just raises an eyebrow.

"What should we do now?" I ask him.

……………………………

"I'll tell you a joke now," I say. For the past few hours, Sesshoumaru and I have been talking about just anything. I found out that he loves to jog also and that was what he had been doing as well before the storm. It's amazing how easy it is to talk to him. It's quite surprising actually. I'd have thought we would have just argued. He's really funny actually and not such a bad person. I suppose it was just the first meeting that gave the bad impression.

"Okay then. Hope it's not another George Bush joke," Sesshoumaru replies.

"Naw. Don't want to waste my breath on him anymore (a/n: as anyone can clearly see, I am so against Bush. To all those Bush supporters, sorry, I can't really help it! Please don't be mad at me!) Okay, here it is.

"There are these three people, right? And they are, uh… Inuyasha, you, and me, kay? Ahem. ANYWAYS, we all get into a fatal car accident together and die. Still with me? Okay.

"When we get Up There, we are able to meet the Big Man himself, because it seems that somehow we all got another chance to live. Reincarnation, I suppose.

"Anyways, the Big Guy brings us to a cliff way up there, still. And on this cliff, he says that all we have to do is say what we want to become when we're born again and jump off the cliff. We will then become what we said.

"Inuyasha, anxious to be born again, walks over to the edge of the cliff first. Obviously he wants to become something different than an actor.

"'I wanna be a pimp,' he says and jumps off the cliff. And he becomes a pimp.

"I go next because I feel like it. I walk over to the cliff and contemplate what I should become, when an idea hits me.

"'I want to be a doctor,' I announce and jump off. Thus, I become a great doctor.

"And then it's your turn. You still are amazed at the chance to be alive again, so you quickly walk to the edge of the cliff, not looking at where you're going. Suddenly, you trip over a rock and—

"'Aw SHIT!' you say as you trip and fall over the cliff. And that is what you wisely chose to become," I finished, laughing my head off. I'm laughing so hard, I have to clutch my sides. Besides me, I hear nothing.

My laughter finally subsides and I turn my head to look at Sesshoumaru. He's clutching his face with his right hand, shoulders shaking.

"A-are you okay? I hope I didn't offend you! I'm SO sorry, Sesshoumaru!" I apologize. Suddenly, I hear chuckles coming from him. Huh?

Then it hits me. He's laughing.

After a few minutes, he calmed down a bit. "Now that was one helluva funny joke," he says, a grin on his face.

"Thanks," I reply, "A friend told me it once awhile back."

"Yeah?" he asks. I nod my head. Did I tell you I'm sitting right next to Sesshoumaru on his couch? No? Well, I am. And his couch is small so we're about a few inches away from each other only.

Suddenly, for strange reasons that I know not, I lay my head on Sesshoumaru's shoulder. I feel him tense up at first, but then he slowly relaxes, laying his head on mine. I feel his warm breath on me and I smile.

I close my eyes, feeling very content. We sit in this position for awhile and all is quiet except the soft pattering of rain.

And then I remember. Inuyasha. I'm engaged. I cannot be doing this. I may not like Inuyasha, but I can't be doing stuff like this behind his back.

I stand up abruptly, surprising Sesshoumaru. He looks up at me with slightly surprised eyes.

"I-I'm engaged," I say. Okay, I just made it sound like he was the one who had laid his head on my shoulder, when it was me who did. Gosh, good job, Kagome, "I-I'm mean. I can't be doing stuff like this. I'm so sorry. I-I have to go."

And I leave. Leaving behind a wide-eyed, silver haired man who, in his presence (as of today), I feel so calm, at peace, and…

complete. Something I've never felt with anyone else before, not even Inuyasha.

And I don't really want to feel that way with anyone else, but him. What the hell is this feeling?

A/N: I love my Swedish Fish! If I could live off of my fishys alone, I would! sigh Iheart my fishys! Hmm…I wonder why people love the fishys so much anyways. -thoughtful look- Oh well! ahaha. Oh no! -tear- Three left! -cries a river-

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